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Word: kill (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Right to Kill, a drama from the Russian, and Bunk of 1926, a semi-amateur revue, appeared last week at outlying theatres. Both were crude...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays: Mar. 1, 1926 | 3/1/1926 | See Source »

...Look at the history of punishment. England used to kill a man for picking pockets. They held their executions on a high hill so all could see and feel the deterrent effect. But there were more pickpockets among the crowds surrounding the scaffold than at any other time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: Capital Punishment | 2/15/1926 | See Source »

...that the Government scheme may be reduced to a jumble of absurdities by the same process. With a heavy heart M. Doumer pronounced a sour dictum upon last week's performance of Les Folies Bourbon: It would seem that in this Chamber a majority can always be found to kill any proposal whatever...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: A la Chambre | 2/15/1926 | See Source »

...mushrooms of lascivious shape and noxious odor, which gave us shameful diseases in various forms." The Abbé des Noyers boomed: "That is a frightful lie!" The other male defendant, one Henri Froger, was called: "The Abbé afflicted me likewise with shameful diseases. . . . We did not mean to kill him but only to defend our Sainted Mother Marie, whose statue of the Blessed Virgin now weeps* night and day. . . . We await such punishment as may be meted out to us as martyrs. We have only done our duty." Mme. Robert, who had declared earlier that she was the last...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Abb | 2/1/1926 | See Source »

self from the battle and came to the cabin in the forest. Hunding discovers that Siegmund and Sieglinde resemble each other and, fearing that Siegmund will kill him when he discovers his own treatment of his wife, he challenges him to a battle for the next morning...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Wagner Is Selected for Harvard Opera Night | 1/23/1926 | See Source »

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